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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: The CD is dead! Long live the CD! |
| Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:56:36 -0400 |
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At Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:31:28 Ken Kase
>EMI Music CEO says the CD is 'dead'
>Last Update: 8:38 AM ET Oct 27, 2006
>
>LONDON (MarketWatch) -- EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive Alain Levy
>Friday told an audience at the London Business School that the CD is dead,
>saying music companies will no longer be able to sell CDs without offering
>"value-added" material.
>
>"The CD as it is right now is dead," Levy said, adding that 60% of
>consumers
>put CDs into home computers in order to transfer material to digital music
>players.
Isn't this like Chicken Little *finally* realizing the sky is falling after
the other chickens have already figured it out?
Wake up and smell the apocolypse, EMI.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
"Not Suing Our Customers' Since 1985!!"
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